United Kingdom General Election, 1832
Earl Grey
WhigAppointed Prime Minister
Earl Grey
Whig1830 election
MPs1831 election
MPs1832 election
MPs1835 election
MPs1837 election
MPsThe 1832–33
United KingdomUnited Kingdom general election, the first after the
Reform Act, saw the Whigs win a large majority, with the Tories
winning less than 30% of the vote.Contents1 Parties and leaders at the general election
2 Dates of election
3 Summary of the constituencies
4 Results4.1 Voting summary
4.2 Seats summary
4.3 Regional results4.3.1 Great Britain4.3.1.1 England
4.3.1.2 Scotland
4.3.1.3 Wales4.3.2 Ireland
4.3.3 Universities5 See also
6 ReferencesParties and leaders at the general election[edit]
The Earl Grey had been Prime Minister since November 1830. He headed
the first predominantly Whig administration since the Ministry of All
the Talents in 1806–07.
In addition to the Whigs themselves, Grey was supported by Radical and
other allied politicians
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Reform Act 1832
The Representation of the People Act 1832 (known informally as the
1832 Reform Act, Great
Reform Act or First
Reform Act to distinguish
it from subsequent Reform Acts) was an
Act of ParliamentAct of Parliament of the United
Kingdom (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. IV c. 45) that introduced
wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales.
According to its preamble, the Act was designed to "take effectual
Measures for correcting divers Abuses that have long prevailed in the
Choice of Members to serve in the Commons House of Parliament".[1]
Before the reform, most members nominally represented boroughs. The
number of electors in a borough varied widely, from a dozen or so up
to 12,000. Frequently the selection of MPs was effectively controlled
by one powerful patron: for example Charles Howard, 11th Duke of
Norfolk controlled eleven boroughs
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United Kingdom General Election, 1837
Lord Melbourne
WhigAppointed Prime Minister
Lord Melbourne
Whig1832 election
MPs1835 election
MPs1837 election
MPs1841 election
MPs1847 election
MPsThe 1837
United KingdomUnited Kingdom general election was triggered by the death of
King William IV and produced the first parliament of the reign of his
successor, Victoria. It saw Robert Peel's Conservatives close further
on the position of the Whigs, who won their fourth election of the
decade.
The election marked the last time that a parliament was dissolved as a
result of the demise of the Crown
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United Kingdom General Election, 1852
Lord Derby
ConservativeAppointed Prime Minister
Lord Derby
Conservative1841 election
MPs1847 election
MPs1852 election
MPs1857 election
MPs1859 election
MPsThe 1852
United KingdomUnited Kingdom general election was a watershed in the
formation of the modern political parties of Britain. Following 1852,
the Tory/Conservative party became, more completely, the party of the
rural aristocracy, while the Whig/Liberal party became the party of
the rising urban bourgeoisie in Britain. The results of the election
were extremely close in terms of both the popular vote and the numbers
of seats won by the two main parties. As in the previous election of
1847, Lord John Russell's Whigs won the popular vote, but the
Conservative party won a very slight majority of the seats
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North West England (European Parliament Constituency)
In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative, elected
body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three
functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing
the government via hearings and inquiries.
The term is similar to the idea of a senate, synod or congress, and is
commonly used in countries that are current or former monarchies, a
form of government with a monarch as the head. Some contexts restrict
the use of the word parliament to parliamentary systems, although it
is also used to describe the legislature in some presidential systems
(e.g. the French parliament), even where it is not in the official
name.
Historically, parliaments included various kinds of deliberative,
consultative, and judicial assemblies, e.g
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United Kingdom General Election, 1868
Benjamin Disraeli
ConservativeAppointed Prime Minister
William Ewart Gladstone
Liberal1859 election
MPs1865 election
MPs1868 election
MPs1874 election
MPs1880 election
MPsThe 1868
United KingdomUnited Kingdom general election was the first after passage
of the Reform Act 1867, which enfranchised many male householders,
thus greatly increasing the number of men who could vote in elections
in the United Kingdom
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Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major parties in the United
Kingdom—with the opposing Conservative Party—in the nineteenth and
early twentieth century.[2]
The party arose from an alliance of Whigs and free trade Peelites and
Radicals favourable to the ideals of the American and French
Revolutions in the 1850s. By the end of the nineteenth century, it had
formed four governments under William Gladstone. Despite being divided
over the issue of Irish Home Rule, the party returned to government in
1906 with a landslide victory.
It passed the welfare reforms that created a basic British welfare
state. Liberal
H. H. AsquithH. H. Asquith was Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916,
followed by
David Lloyd GeorgeDavid Lloyd George from 1916 to 1922
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